The impact of QCD plasma instabilities on bottom-up thermalization

Details The impact of QCD plasma instabilities on bottom-up thermalization The impact of QCD plasma instabilities on bottom-up thermalization

2005-08-21

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0508223v2

JHEP0510:092,2005

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

12 pages, latex, one typo corrected, several minor changes in the abstract and the text, to appear in JHEP

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2005/10/092

QCD plasma instabilities, caused by an anisotropic momentum distributions of the particles in the plasma, are likely to play an important role in thermalization in heavy ion collisions. We consider plasmas with two different components of particles, one strongly anisotropic and one isotropic or nearly isotropic. The isotropic component does not eliminate instabilities but it decreases their growth rates. We investigate the impact of plasma instabilities on the first stage of the ``bottom-up'' thermalization scenario in which such a two-component plasma emerges, and find that even in the case of non-abelian saturation instabilities qualitatively change the bottom-up picture.

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